Tinodontidae
{{Short description|Extinct family of mammals}}
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| fossil_range = Jurassic to Cretaceous, {{fossilrange|155|140.2}}
| taxon = Tinodontidae
| authority = Marsh, 1887
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = *Gobiotheriodon?
}}
Tinodontidae is an extinct family of actively mobile mammals, endemic to what would now be North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=39867 PaleoBiology Database: Tinodontidae, basic info]{{cite web |url=http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/symmetro.htm |title=MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Tinodontidae and Spalacotheriidae, an internet directory}}
Taxonomy
Tinodontidae
was named by Marsh (1887). It was assigned to Mammalia by Marsh (1887); and to Symmetrodonta by McKenna and Bell (1997).O. C. Marsh. 1887. American Jurassic mammals. The American Journal of Science, series 3 33(196):327-348 More recently, they have been recovered as more basal to symmetrodonts, though still within the mammalian crown-group.{{cite journal |author=S. Bi |author2=Y. Wang |author3=J. Guan |author4=Z. Sheng |author5=J. Meng. |date=30 October 2014 |title=Three new Jurassic euharamiyidan species reinforce early divergence of mammals |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13718 |journal=Nature |volume=514 |issue=7524 |pages=579–584 |doi=10.1038/nature13718 |pmid= 25209669|s2cid=4471574 |access-date=13 September 2022|url-access=subscription }}
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Category:Cretaceous mammals of North America
Category:Jurassic mammals of North America
Category:Early Jurassic first appearances
Category:Early Cretaceous extinctions
Category:Prehistoric mammal families
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